Taxonomic and functional surrogates of sessile benthic diversity in Mediterranean marine caves.

Hard substrates host globally a rich biodiversity, orders of magnitude higher in species number than that in surrounding soft substrates. Among them, marine caves support unique biodiversity and fragile communities but suffer lack of quantitative data on their structure and function, hindering their...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Charalampos Dimitriadis, Christos Arvanitidis, Eleni Voultsiadou
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183707&type=printable